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close senitiii)', becomiug restless and ofteu wiudiuy iiji with an aggravating- hop 

 when least desired. However, I have since obtained the renuisite specimens, and 

 have ascertained mnch that I wished to know. 



" My larvae are certainly parasitic. I have kept them with tlieir hosts for 

 several weeks, and, though 1 have had many, I have never detected the slightest 

 movement in any of them. A web is spun upon their hosts to cling to, and there 

 they remain motionless once they commence to develop the white covering. The 

 very young larvae are usually very close up to the thorax, and may sometimes 

 lie across the al)domeu ; but, as they become larger, and require more space, 

 change their position and lie parallel to it, the head being directed towards the 

 end. The body presses closely down upon the host, and the head is drawn in 

 very much, generally resting upon the edge of a segment. As a larva grows, the 

 wings of the homopteron are forced outwards and upwards a little. The abdomens 

 of many of the parasitised ' hoppers ' are usually much siirunken or depressed where 

 the larvae adhere. The snouted Fulgorid produces fine large caterpillars, and it 

 will be noticed that it possesses very little indeed of the waxy substance. The 

 pupae, as well as the imagos, of the black and the green species carry the 

 caterpillars, yet the former has little or no ' wax ' at the pupal stage ; therefore 

 it cannot for a moment be conceived that there is anything else than the juices 

 of the Fulgoriilac for the caterjiillars to live upon. 



" The moths, like various carnivorous species with which I am acquainted, soon 

 become greasy. 



" I may mention that 1 had not the faintest idea that the species of moths 

 referred to by Mr. Kirkalily were known to exist, nor had I ever seen or heiird 

 of the Japanese publication, the Insect World. 



" Some four years ago, during a visit to Mr. H. Tryon, our State Entomologist, 

 in Brisbane, he drew my attention to a small white cocoon, which he had found 

 attached to a twig in his garden, and which he aptly compared to a rosette. 

 The moth tlierefrom also was shown to me. 1 had not seen the species before, 

 nor, I believe, had Mr. Tryon. Not long afterwards I came to Towusville, some 

 800 miles north of Brisbane, and, during my entomological wanderings here, 

 have found similar cocoons at intervals, and obtained moths therefrom. The 

 cocoous usually were upon narrow blades of grass, but I did not search for the 

 larvae, considering any attempt to find them as utterly hoi)eless. However, during 

 April this year, I found several of the cocoous upon grass, under some shrubs, 

 and having during the previous year (1902) discovered that a caterpillar, which 

 constructs a somewhat similar cocoon, and passes the earlier part of its existence 

 upon certain homopterous insects (adhering to them and much resembling small 

 bloated ticks, and undoubtedly imbibing their juices), I at once commenced a 

 careful search amongst the several species of Homojitera in the vicinity. Ere 

 long I noticed a small whitish Fnlgorid, with wings somewhat apart, and looking 

 decidedly uncomfortable ; upon boxing this I found, to my extreme gratification, 

 that there was attached to it a stout, oval, and almost snow-white lepidopterous 

 larva, which I felt confident was the insect I was seeking for. Soon after several 

 more of these 'frog-hoppers,' each with a larva attached, were taken, tlio larva 

 being under the wings and a little upon the side of the abdomen. The caterpillar 

 upon the first hopper crawled off' that night, and next morning proceeded to 

 construct its charming little cocoon. The moth emerged early in the afternoon 

 thirteen days later. 



